If you read me often you might have noticed that my blog has been down for a few days. If you interact with me often you probably noticed I was pissed off because of this. The reason behind the blog being down is that the Amazon instance decided to go crazy on me so I had to terminate it and build a new one. This of course after countless investigations and some technical exchanges on the Amazon forum, where people kept saying the Apache server is to blame, when even connecting through ssh took more than one minute. It was as if the instance was hosted on a server on the moon maybe or if I had old-style modem internet.

As you can notice I also started writing in Romanian again. The reason for this is, if I keep criticizing the grammar of the people I interact with, I might also give them a source of proper Romanian grammar so they can improve theirs.

Now the deed is done, the new instance is up and running. For the moment, the blog can be considered convalescent. I have to add the settings to prevent common wordpress hacks and then all will be ok. Anyway, wordpress is getting on my nerves so for Christmas I’ll give myself as a present a blogging platform fully written in JavaScript(yes, server-side too). And if I’m satisfied with it I’ll even share it with the world. :)

This being said, I’ll throw the last things needed in my luggage and off to Frankfurt I go, for a brainstorm with my colleagues on memory consumption optimization topics and the second Christmas party. :D